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June 2019
COLLABORATORS
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play “It’s man versus monster, And the monster always wins.” Moscow 1938. Not the best place to have a sense of honour, let alone a yearning for freedom. So when prominent Russian writer, Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents and hounded by the secret police, is given a surprise commission to pen a biographical drama about Joseph Stalin to celebrate his 60th birthday, he soon discovers there is a high price to pay.…
Find out more »JASPER JONES
Based on the Novel by Craig Silvey. Adapted by Kate Mulvany. Cast includes – Beth Daly, Elliott Weston, Nicholas Longthorne, Amy James, Tony Shim and Callan Purcell as Jasper. Director Nicholas Christo says “Jasper Jones is a piece that brings with it a sweeping visual grandeur which intersects with legitimate relationships hidden in private realms…. our production will see a multitalented cast and creative team enlivening the black and brutal angularity of the stage/surrounds with the warmth of physical tableau,…
Find out more »PERSUASION, by Jane Austen
The story concerns Anne Elliott, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife’s brother, Navy captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne in 1806, and now they meet again, both single and unattached, after no contact for more than seven years. This sets the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance…
Find out more »July 2019
RAZORHURST
Book & Lyrics by Kate Mulley, Music by Andy Peterson. From the 1920’s until the 1930’s, two vice queens, Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, ruled the Darlinghurst underworld. Their rivalry was infamous, leading to a litany of violent crimes enacted by their razor gangs as each struggled to gain dominance in a world of sly grog, narcotics and prostitution. In 2019, Kate Leigh’s former sly grog shop is about to reopen as a trendy coffee spot. The shop is being…
Find out more »August 2019
DIVA DELIGHTS, with Valda Wilson
Enjoy an opportunity to meet and listen to Germany-based, Australian born soprano Valda Wilson over lunch in the Utzon Room. Valda’s effervescent personality and a remarkable singing voice have assisted her in establishing an international reputation for performances ‘full of inner conviction with a voice that soars effortlessly...flawlessly accurate yet meltingly smooth, to unexpectedly high notes’ and for ‘amazing versatility and virtuosity’. She was chosen by Richard Bonynge as the only featured singer at the Westminster Abbey memorial service for…
Find out more »SEABORN CONVERSATIONS – REMEMBERING DORIS FITTON
80 years ago the little hall at 269 Miller Street was re-opened by Miss Doris Fitton as the Independent Theatre. Hundreds of our Foundation Friends helped Dr. Seaborn restore this beautiful building in the 1990’s. Come along and enjoy this talk down memory lane as our theatre historian Dr Carolyn Lowry, introduces some very Special Guests who remember the amazing contribution to the performing arts of the redoubtable Actress/Artistic Director Dame Doris Fitton. Enjoy a light lunch with Foundation Friends…
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